Sarah Jessica Parker Encourages Her Kids To Enjoy Sugar

Sarah Jessica Parker is taking steps to encourage her youngsters to have a “more healthy relationship” with meals and vitamin than she did when she was rising up.

Showing on the “Ruthie’s Table 4” podcast this week, the “Intercourse and the Metropolis” actor mentioned she doesn’t set strict guidelines in regards to the quantity of sugar her 14-year-old twins, Tabitha and Marion, eat.

“Once I had women, I didn’t need them to have a relationship with meals that was antagonistic, or they felt like this was their enemy,” Parker defined in a clip from the episode. “Once I was rising up, we weren’t allowed sugar in the home, and we weren’t allowed cookies, and we weren’t allowed chocolate.”

“And, after all, all we did, the minute we moved out, was purchase Entenmann’s muffins and cookies, and I didn’t need that,” she mentioned. “In our home, we’ve got cookies, we’ve got cake, we’ve got the whole lot. And I feel because of this, you type of have a more healthy relationship.”

Along with the twins, Parker additionally shares a 21-year-old son, James, with husband Matthew Broderick. The couple have been married in 1997.

And although Parker and Broderick are most related to New York, they’re at the moment residing in London, the place they’re starring in the West End production of Neil Simon’s comedy “Plaza Suite.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Parker acknowledged by no means having been “very disciplined” about her food regimen, and attributed her toned determine to her early years of dance coaching and stay efficiency.

“It’s actually not the identical now,” she mentioned.

By not depriving her kids of particular meals, Parker believes they’ll additionally develop much less inflexible concepts about physique picture.

“My daughters can have the figures they’ve, and hopefully they’ll be wholesome,” she mentioned. “They’re athletes and so they take pleasure in meals and so they have completely different palates, and you’ll’t make somebody like one thing they don’t like or need.”

She went on to notice: “I hope that they’ll preserve their affection for the expertise and their enjoyment of style, and discover their very own methods to have that be wholesome for them.”

Hearken to Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Ruthie’s Desk 4” interview beneath.

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